I often stand by the merchandise booth, point to a poster and tell people, 'That's me.'

I would choose no other band, given the opportunity, except for one that's extinct, like Devo. Sorry to my bandmates, but I'd rather be in Devo.

How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of questioning HIV is considered so dangerous that even venturing into the facts is too great a risk?

I bought my first bass because I wanted to be in a Band, and heard that it was the easiest instrument to play. A friend told me that it was the sexiest instrument.

How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.

Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.

If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has to see his mother.

We look forward to seeing all of your Vaseline coated smiles terribly soon.

How light the raindrop's contents are

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.

What an astonishing thing a book is.

I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

Sometimes perfecting the one thing can be the enemy of getting any traction on anything else.

If filmmakers are ignorant of the past, they laborto re-invent the wheel in every picture. You sit and think, 'Well,we're back to 1903 here.'

I can rest when I'm dead.

When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh, and laugh, and laugh.